Archive for the ‘VHS’ Category
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Monday, October 25th, 2010After twenty years, a HALLOWEEN sequel finally learned an important piece of horror movie wisdom: No explanation is always better than a bad explanation — and sometimes even far more effective and scary than a good explanation.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Friday, October 22nd, 2010I’d really hate to reduce my review of HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS to a list of grievances, but by this, the fifth movie featuring the masked-face, familial killer, producers were scraping carrion from Michael’s already well-chewed bones — and there just wasn’t much left to make a story out of.

Halloween 5
Thursday, October 21st, 2010Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Some serious logical impediments stood in the way of continuing the Michael Myers legend.
First of all, he was dead.
Halloween II
Monday, October 18th, 2010Michael Myers wreaks havoc in the world’s most understaffed hospital.

“You don’t know what death is.”
HBO coverage of Night of the Living Dead
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010I was going through some old tape and found this on the end of one of them.
Night of Horror
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Star Portal
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Some of the best — if not all the best — genre films are by directors who stick to the genre. I’m hard pressed at the moment to think of a real solid horror or sci-fi film by a director who simply dipped into the game for one elegant slam dunk of a picture. I’m sure you can prove me wrong. But chances are any exception to the rule is a film by a master director whose vision transcends genre boundaries. (So you can’t throw PSYCHO or THE SHINING in my face). As a horror/sci-fi aficionado, you know that when you’ve got a director whose resume boasts a whopping five films and only one of them qualifies as a genre film, you’re probably getting a movie offering which is about the equivalent of your English Comp essay read to a symposium of bored bourgeois intellectuals. (more…)
Game Reviews: Resident Evil 4
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Alright, this is my first post. Let’s get started with the review.
Recently I started and finished playing Resident Evil 4 for the PS2. I picked this game up a few years ago but I hadn’t played it until just recently because I kept getting sidetracked. Then the release of Resident Evil 5 got my ass in gear, cause it wouldn’t be much fun to play RE5 without knowing the story of RE4. The Resident Evil series is one of my favorite groups of games and RE4 did not disappoint, as I will now describe. (more…)


